My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Friendship Games
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My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Friendship Games, known simply as Friendship Games, is a 2015 animated musical sports fantasy film which is a part of Hasbro's My Little Pony: Equestria Girls toy line and media franchise, itself a spin-off of the 2010 relaunch of the main My Little Pony franchise. The film was animated using Adobe Flash, directed by Ishi Rudell[N 1] and written by Josh Haber,[N 2] and was produced by DHX Media's 2D animation studio in Vancouver, Canada for Hasbro Studios in the United States, as a sequel to 2014's Rainbow Rocks film. Unlike the previous two films, Friendship Games had no theatrical run in the United States and Canada (apart from a premiere event at Angelika Film Center on September 17, 2015), but the film was first shown on Discovery Family, a joint venture between Discovery Communications and Hasbro, on September 26, with a home media release on October 13 that year by Shout! Factory; it also had a limited theatrical run in the United Kingdom, Mexico and Australia beginning in late October 2015.
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Directed by | Ishi Rudell Jayson Thiessen (consulting director) |
Written by | Josh Haber |
Based on | (Uncredited; part of the My Little Pony: Equestria Girls toy line and media franchise by Hasbro) |
Produced by | Devon Cody |
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Edited by | Rachel Kenzie |
Music by | William Anderson |
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Distributed by | Shout! Factory (home media) |
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Running time | 72 minutes (DVD/Blu-ray)[1] |
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Language | English |
Like the first two Equestria Girls films, Friendship Games re-envisions the main characters of the parent franchise, normally ponies, as teenage humanoid characters in a high school setting. Set during the events of the fifth-season finale of Friendship Is Magic, the film's story centers around a sports competition between the students of Canterlot High School and their rivals at Crystal Prep Academy, one of whom is Twilight's parallel universe counterpart, who has been investigating the magical activity around Canterlot High.
A fourth Equestria Girls film, subtitled Legend of Everfree, was released on Netflix on October 1, 2016.[2]